If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
SYDNEY J. HARRISWe truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith.
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It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.
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We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.
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Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’
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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter.
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No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his “philosophy of life” until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
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Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
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The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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